What's behind 'vinegar-gate' in Bristol, UK?
For Harriet Williams, the moment came one day when she was at a park playing with her 18-month-old son."And a guy turns up with a backpack and starts spraying the weeds at the base of the railings,"...
View ArticleWhy Indonesia keeps blowing up boats on TV
Indonesia, responsible for guarding some of the world’s most precious fishing waters, has a message to seafaring poachers.Sail into our waters illegally if you dare. But if we catch you, we will toss...
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Just how uncivil is Election 2016? MIT's Media Lab has some charts you should...
We’ve heard a lot of … let’s say, colorful rhetoric this election cycle from US presidential candidates and their supporters.Now, a team of data scientists at MIT say they can actually quantify just...
View ArticleThat emoji you sent might not mean what you think
A new study finds that emoji, the tiny graphic images increasingly used in text communications, can be interpreted in a variety of ways. In other words? That round-faced emoticon at the end of your...
View ArticleIn this memoir, a science lab portrayed as 'homey' and respectful
Much of the language used to teach scientific principles or describe exciting scientific discoveries is anything but exciting. Scientific language, as a rule, is precise, but it can also be boring,...
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Africa's Great Green Wall is making progress on two fronts
When Africa’s Great Green Wall is finished, it will cross 11 countries, from Senegal and Mauritania in the west to Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti in the east.For those in charge of making this...
View ArticleIn Brazil, a new Zika strategy: billboards that smell like humans and kill...
There’s an impressive array of creative billboards in Brazil.One in Rio de Janeiro sprays mists of water to cool down beachgoers waiting for a bus home.But a new innovation recently unveiled in this...
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One of Africa's most active volcanoes is showing new signs of life
In the early morning of Feb. 29, park officials, tourists and locals near Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo heard an unfamiliar sound: rumbling.What they were hearing was the sound...
View ArticleHe claims to have invented Bitcoin. Should we believe him?
Ever few months, it seems another news organization claims to have figured out the real identity of the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto.Nakamoto is the name of the anonymous creator of the crypto-currency...
View ArticleFamous explorer Captain Cook's ship may have been found in Newport, Rhode Island
Captain James Cook is the Christopher Columbus of Australasia. His voyages of discovery in the 18th Century opened the way for the colonization of the South Seas by Europeans.And now Cook’s ship, the...
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The Arctic is opening for business this summer when a cruise ship plies the...
As global warming melts more of the sea ice in the Arctic, it’s creating new economic opportunities — from shipping, to oil drilling to tourism. This summer, a 1,000-passenger luxury cruise ship will...
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Melting ice is causing the Earth's axis to shift direction
Climate change is doing more than melting Earth’s enormous polar ice sheets: It’s actually changing the Earth’s rotation.As the ice melts and runs off into the oceans, the weight of all that mass...
View ArticleSome of the best TED Talks you should be watching
Back in the early 2000s, Chris Anderson took over the TED network. Under his leadership, the TED Talk platform has become a global phenomenon that transmits knowledge, excitement, and big ideas.In his...
View ArticleThis computer device allows a paralyzed man to regain movement
Columbus State University business student Ian Burkhart was playing in the waves on the outer banks of North Carolina during a vacation in 2010 when he did something that would change his life...
View ArticleA fire in Canada has forced an entire city's population to flee their homes
It looks like an apocalypse.A massive wildfire has torn through the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, forcing more than 80,000 residents to be evacuated. The fire started on Sunday, but no injuries have...
View ArticleDespite government surveillance, Tibetans turn to WeChat
Imagine living across the world from your family and friends and not being able to use Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and other social media and messaging apps to communicate.Because the Chinese...
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Laser-scanning our culture to preserve it
Climate-induced apocalypse forthcoming or not, our Earth endures constant environmental stress. Our landscapes erode, our buildings and roads wear down and crumble. Sometimes humans exacerbate the...
View ArticleAn unlikely early adopter of Paris climate agreement: Somalia
Since the global climate agreement was negotiated in Paris last December, we've heard a lot about the importance of big polluters like the US and China stepping up to actually put that agreement into...
View ArticleIn parts of India, the heat is scorching and the water is almost out
When the heat gets too much for us plains-dwellers in India, we escape en masse to the hills.Temperatures in Delhi and other parts of northern India were in excess of 110 this week.As a child and then...
View ArticleFamine haunted his childhood in Ethiopia. Now he sees food running out again.
The place where you grew up has a way of staying with you for the rest of your life.Abebe Haregewoin knows that feeling. He's an oncologist in Silver Spring, Maryland. But he grew up in Ethiopia and...
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